Forest Use and Regulation Around a Swiss Alpine Community

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1929
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Price, Martin F.
Conference:	Designing Sustainability on the Commons, the First Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Durham, NC
Conf. Date:	September 29, 1990
Date:	1990
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1929
Sector:	Forestry
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	forests regulation common pool resources IASC
Abstract:	"This paper traces the use and regulation of the forests of Davos, in the Canton of Graubanden (Grisons), in eastern Switzerland, concentrating particularly on the 19th and 20th centuries. Like the majority of the communities of the Swiss Alps, Davos has a service economy with vestiges of agriculture. However, tourism in Davos both has a longer history, and has developed to a greater extent, than in most communities. Davos is not typical of Grisons, or the Swiss Alps in general, in a number of other ways. In particular, the current proportion of private ownership - 84 percent - is much higher than the average. Also, past demands on the forests have been especially high because of demands associated with the mining of local metal ores."

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